The Billionaires' Tea Party (Proof Tea Party Is Nothing But Astro Turf)

I think I am starting to figure this out. This might seem obvious to a lot of people, if so you can just gloss this over…..Republicans, I know that you might not think this belongs in your tag but it does.  :) & let me tell you why… The entire republican party  + many of the supporters + the tea party I have witnessed using these same lines. I don’t care which candidate you are for, this is what is happening across the gop. This is not a pro-Obama rant either.

In my opinion, since republicans can’t publicly call Obama racist slurs they resort to calling him names like ‘Communist’ or ‘Marxist’ or ‘Socialist’. This has definite similarities to the tactics that were used against Martin Luther King. Propaganda pamphlets accusing Dr. King of being a communist were dropped from airplanes and the FBI created an entire organization directed against leaders like Dr. King among others. (COINTELPRO) Now you see the same exact thing happening with the tea party today & even libertarians. Instead of the FBI we have many republican institutions devoted to spreading the same anti-communist propaganda which is being funded in a large part by the likes of the Koch Bros. & Americans for Prosperity etc. etc. etc. bombarding the airwaves and television ads with tens of millions of dollars, all of it being used in a crude attempt to paint Obama as some type of Marxist. Obama is by no means perfect but he is also not a Communist, Marxist or a Socialist.

Sen. Rand Paul Calls For ‘Eliminating Wasteful Things Like Foreign Aid’

By Scott Keyes on Feb 15, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for completely eliminating foreign aid on a conservative radio show over the weekend, arguing that doing so would help fix the budget deficit.

Appearing on the Rusty Humphries Show, Paul bemoaned the fact that Republicans “are still divided on [eliminating] foreign aid.” The Kentucky senator continued that Republicans have to get “on the same page on eliminating wasteful things like foreign aid.”

PAUL: But you need to eliminate some things. Republicans are still divided on foreign aid. Some Republicans still want to send foreign aid. We send foreign aid to China. We send economic development assistance to China. We’ve got to get Republicans on the same page on eliminating wasteful things like foreign aid, sending the Department of Education back to the states, greatly downsizing if not eliminating the Department of Energy, all of these things we do up here.

Listen to it:

http://youtu.be/8-jnzT1bXQo

There are two problems with Paul’s goal of getting rid of foreign aid. First, it would do almost nothing to balance the federal budget. Though polls show Americans think it accounts for anywhere from 10 percent to one-third of the budget, in fact, less than one percent of federal spending goes towards foreign aid.

Second, zeroing out foreign aid would be a disaster for both those living in dire poverty around the world and the United States’ foreign policy interests. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) ripped his own party on the issue last month, saying that eliminating foreign aid would be “outrightly foolish” and “un-Christian.” “I resent the idea that the conservative viewpoint somehow is at odds with the idea of strategic investment in countries around the globe,” Huckabee said in South Carolina. Helping lift people around the globe out of poverty also benefits our own economic and national security interests.

Unfortunately, Paul’s position has found much more favor in the Republican Party of late than Huckabee’s. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul have all called for zeroing out foreign aid during the presidential primary campaign.